COL49 - Pointing Where

[David Morris]

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She wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deck full of days which 
seemed (wouldn't she be the first to admit it?) more or less identical, or 
all pointing the same way like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear 
to the trained eye.
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"I heard that," Pierce said. [...] That phone line could have pointed any 
direction, been any length.
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These two passages show a clear contrast in Oedipa's view of herself and of 
Pierce.  Her's is all monotony.  His is all uncertainty, and possibility.  
Was he her ticket out of a dead-end life, himself now dead?  Were they 
lovers?  Might they have been had he survived?  Oedipa needs her opposite, 
Pierce, if only posthumously, and she will pursue him so.

David Morris

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